This week in motor sport – September 12
This week in motor sport, featuring a hat-trick win for Hill in his birthday week, and Mansell retires twice in one day. Jackie Stewart leads Jim Clark at Monza in 1965…
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In time the unexpected would become the expected, but this was only Ayrton Senna’s 17th Championship Grand Prix – and the first for which he’d taken pole. Sunday dawned dry,…
Alex Brooker, presenter of Channel 4’s The Last Leg, paid tribute to the incredible Alex Zanardi after the Italian won his fifth Paralympic silver medal, 15 years to the day since…
Damien Smith looks ahead to the latest issue of Motor Sport, featuring his interview with Paralympic hero Alex Zanardi. The Italian this week added a third gold to the two won…
How’s the season going so far? For my first season I would say we are doing good so far. We’ve already had a few podiums, even though we have had…
Fernando Alonso may have been the first driver to win a grand prix in Marina Bay but was far from the first driver to win in Singapore. Paul Fearnley looks back at the history of the Asian GP and the crowning of its first champions
It’s an oft-repeated cliché that this was the apotheosis among many fine moments in Jackie Stewart’s Grand Prix career, but the full circumstances bear repetition. In April 1968 the Scot fractured…
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). Reverse grids might be anathema to F1 purists, but when they’re caused by natural phenomena –…
This week in motor sport from the Archive and Database, featuring no fewer than 19 Italian Grands Prix and much more. September 5 1954: Juan Manuel Fangio takes a lucky win…
This week in motor sport, featuring a hat-trick win for Hill in his birthday week, and Mansell retires twice in one day. Jackie Stewart leads Jim Clark at Monza in 1965…
In time the unexpected would become the expected, but this was only Ayrton Senna’s 17th Championship Grand Prix – and the first for which he’d taken pole. Sunday dawned dry,…
Alex Brooker, presenter of Channel 4’s The Last Leg, paid tribute to the incredible Alex Zanardi after the Italian won his fifth Paralympic silver medal, 15 years to the day since…
Damien Smith looks ahead to the latest issue of Motor Sport, featuring his interview with Paralympic hero Alex Zanardi. The Italian this week added a third gold to the two won…
How’s the season going so far? For my first season I would say we are doing good so far. We’ve already had a few podiums, even though we have had…
Fernando Alonso may have been the first driver to win a grand prix in Marina Bay but was far from the first driver to win in Singapore. Paul Fearnley looks back at the history of the Asian GP and the crowning of its first champions
It’s an oft-repeated cliché that this was the apotheosis among many fine moments in Jackie Stewart’s Grand Prix career, but the full circumstances bear repetition. In April 1968 the Scot fractured…
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). Reverse grids might be anathema to F1 purists, but when they’re caused by natural phenomena –…
This week in motor sport from the Archive and Database, featuring no fewer than 19 Italian Grands Prix and much more. September 5 1954: Juan Manuel Fangio takes a lucky win…
Alpine sits at the bottom of the F1 championship table this year; its drivers struggling with the car. But one change due in 2026 could transform its fortunes, says Mark Hughes
When you’re falling behind, there’s less risk in trying something different. Which is why F1 drivers can ace grands prix and still get beaten by a slower team-mate — as Oscar Piastri and Lewis Hamilton know too well
The valuation of a Formula 1 team may seem an esoteric consideration for F1 followers. But it can have a huge impact upon events and the landscape upon which the…
Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris worked together ahead of the 2025 Chinese GP, finding the pace that delivered a 1-2 finish, while Norris also prepared to attack his team-mate during the race. Brake issues denied him, says Mark Hughes but the F1 title duel is coming
Esteban Ocon’s Alpine stint ended at the 2024 Qatar GP, giving Jack Doohan a make-or-break F1 chance in Abu Dhabi. Elsewhere FIA boss Mohammed Ben Sulayem dismissed driver concerns and mechanics just wanted a kip: Chris Medland‘s paddock diary
Sergio Perez’s future looks bleak after another underwhelming performance, while George Russell can be upbeat despite his disqualification: 2024 Belgian GP diary
Red Bull co-founder Dietrich Mateschitz’s death didn’t just change the company. It marked the begining of the end for Christian Horner’s two-decade reign at the head of the F1 team
At the 2025 Formula 1 season reached the summer break, clear winners and losers have emerged in a campaign defined by McLaren’s dominance
Vittorio Brambilla won just a single grand prix in his Formula 1 career but, writes Matt Bishop, it was a spectacularly skilful and determined victory at an Austrian race blanketed by rain and tragedy
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